Alexander Hajek

Alexander Hajek is an Austrian road cyclist who rides for Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe. He was born on 19 July 2003 in Hainburg an der Donau. He is a climber and stage-race rider whose best results so far have come in mid-ranking stage races.

He rode for Team Auto Eder in 2021. As a junior that year he finished second overall at the Internationale Juniorenrundfahrt and fifth in the road race at the Junior World Championships. He turned professional in 2022 with Trinity Racing and finished third overall at the Carpathian Couriers Race, then rode for the Tirol KTM Cycling Team in 2023 and was third at the GP Gorenjska. He signed a three-year deal with BORA–hansgrohe starting in 2024. In his first season in the WorldTour he became Austrian road race champion, and he also finished seventh overall at the Presidential Tour of Türkiye and tenth at the Coppa Sabatini.

In 2025 he worked as a helper at major races, including the Volta a Catalunya, and also rode the Itzulia Basque Country, the Tour de Romandie and the Dauphiné, the last as a late replacement. He got his own chance at the Tour de Hongrie after Frederik Wandahl crashed out, and finished fourth overall, his best general classification result so far, with sixth place on the stage 3 summit finish. In the second half of the year he was eighth at the Czech Tour and tenth at the Tour of Croatia, finishing second in the young rider classification at both.

In 2026 he rode the Tour de Suisse, finishing 63rd overall and 23rd in the youth classification, and the Ethias-Tour de Wallonie, where he was 56th overall and 13th in the youth classification. He was 37th at the Tour of Austria, riding for the Austrian national team, 56th at the Brussels Cycling Classic, 29th at the Trofeo Matteotti and 40th at the Coppa Bernocchi, and he took 43rd place in the road race at the European Championships.